(En) Kevin Craft lives in Seattle and directs the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College. His first book, Solar Prominence (2005), was selected by Vern Rutsala for the Gorsline Prize from Cloudbank Books. A new collection, Vagrants & Accidentals, has just been published in the Pacific Northwest Poets Series of the University of Washington Press. His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared widely in such places as Poetry, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The Stranger. He has received fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, MacDowell Colony, the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), the Camargo Foundation (France), 4Culture, The Jack Straw Cultural Center, and Artist Trust. Craft served as editor of Poetry Northwest from 2009 - 2016. He is now executive editor of Poetry NW Editions, and a director of the UW Writers in Rome program which he has led for nearly 20 years. He believes that poems, like good travelers, live in the go-between.

(En) Charles Borkhuis is a poet and playwright living in NYC. His nine books of poetry include: Finely Tuned Static with paintings by John McCluskey (Lunar Chandelier, 2017). Dead Ringer (BlazeVox, 2017), Disappearing Acts (Chax 2014), Afterimage (Chax, 2006 ). His plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hartford, and Paris. His two radio plays were aired over NPR and can be heard on www.pennsound.

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Rebecca Dolinsky
studied art and theory in New York and Paris. Her work lies between
text and image. She makes drawings, painting, sculpture, installation,
performance, photography, film, and artist’s books. These unique books
include : Button Candy, The Desiring Machines, Patient, Sans Attaches
Parisiennes, The Circular Library, Un Kub Or, Mille Feuille, Handwerks,
The Language of Fans and The Dés Book. Some of the printed books
include: please Louise, YOU GO FOR FASHION I GO FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS,
AUTORITRATTO COIFFE/KWAF/FEMININ, and BOOKS. She holds a salon for women in the arts on Thursday mornings in Paris. Find her at: http://www.rebeccadolinsky.com

Jeffrey Greene is a poet, memoirist, and nature writer. He received an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. from University of Houston. He has published five collections of poetry, including Beyond Our Means in October 2016. He is also the author of the memoir French Spirits and three personalized nature books, most recently In Pursuit of Wild Edibles, also published in 2016. He wrote Shades of the Other Shore, a book of mixed genre writing: sketches, prose pieces, and poetry written in collaboration with painter Ralph Petty for the Cahier Series. His writing has been supported through fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Rinehart Fund, and Humanities Texas, and he was a winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize, the Randall Jarrell Award, and the "Discovery"/ The Nation Award. His poems, short stories, and essays have appeared numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, Ploughshares, Southwest Review and the anthologies Strangers in Paris, Starry Island, and Nothing to Declare: A Guide to Flash Sequence. Musical settings of his poems have been performed by the Mirror Visions Ensemble in Paris, New York, and Cambridge UK and have been recorded on Albany Records and Centaur Records. He is professor of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris and teaches for the Pan-European MFA Program.

Cole Swensen is a poet and translator with seventeen volumes of poetry and twenty of translation in print. Co-editor of the Norton anthology American Hybrid, she has also edited a special dossier of contemporary French poetry for the journal Aufgabe.She divides her life between Paris and Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches at Brown University.

Suzanne Doppelt is engaged in various modes of seeing and knowing (natural history, cosmology, classical philosophy, optics), her many published works merge the lines of the poetic and the photographic. Her recent works include Le pré est vénéneux (P.O.L, 2007), Lazy Suzie (P.O.L, 2009), La plus grande aberration (P.O.L, 2012) and Amusements de mécanique (P.O.L, 2014). Three of her books have been translated into English (by Cole Swensen): Ring Rang Wrong (Burning Deck, 2006), The Field is Lethal (Counterpath Press, 2011) and Lazy Suzie (Litmus Press, 2014). Doppelt's photographs have been exhibited in a variety of venues, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, l'Institut français in Naples, and New York University.

Rosanna Warren teaches at the University of Chicago. Her most recent books of poems are Departure (2003) and Ghost in a Red Hat (2011). Her book of criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, came out in 2008. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. She was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

Henri Droguet, born on the 29th of October 1944 in Cherbourg, is the author of 20-some books, notably Palimpsestes é rigaudons, éditions Potentille 2016, Faisez pas les cons, éditions Fario, 2016, Désordre du jour, Gallimard, 2016, Maintenant ou jamais chez Belin, 2013, Off, Gallimard, 2007, Presto con fuoco, Mona Kerloff, 2006, Albert & Cie, histoire, Apogée, 2005. His father was a sous-officier of the Marine Nationale. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Cherbourg before studying History and Literature at the University of Caen from 1962 to 1968. He became a professor of French Literature and taught at St Malo until 2004. In 45 years, he published over 20 books, most of them poetry, primarly published by les éditions Gallimard. He is also the author of two collections of prose and a dozen art books. Among the things in life which bring him great pleasure in his spare time, he lists: reading, travel, gardening, cinema, opera, and sailing—in particular navigating the waters of Western Europe.

Alexander Dickow is a scholar of French and Francophone literature, a translator, and a poet. His work includes Caramboles (Paris: Argol Editions, 2008), a collection of poems in French and English; Rhapsodie curieuse (diospyros kaki), a hybrid poetic text (Mugron: Editions Louise Bottu, 2017); a chapbook in English called Trial Balloons (Corrupt Press, 2012); and Le Poète innombrable: Blaise Cendrars, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob (Paris: Hermann, 2015), a scholarly study of French modernism. His translations include Clatters (Minneapolis: Rain Taxi/Ohm Editions, 2015), translated in collaboration with the author, Henri Droguet. Translations of Gustave Roud and Sylvie Kandé are in preparation. For more, see his personal website at: http://alexdickow9.wixsite.com/alexdickow9

Audi Pivin is a translator from English, notably of English and American poetry. She initially studied and taught cinema and contributed regularly to the review La Lettre du Cinéma before she began publishing her own stories and vignettes in such literary reviews as Aka, Revue Saint-Ambroise, L'Atelier du roman, Secousse,Remue.net. Elle She is currently translating the American poet Rosanna Warren. She hopes to make France aware of Warren’s works via readings and publications (such as Conférence, Rehauts, Jardins, Pleine Marge, Terres de femmes, Place de la Sorbonne).

Christine Herzer: is a visual artist, poet and teacher. Having lived, worked and studied in different cultures [France, USA, India, Germany] and environments [corporate marketing, higher education, spirituality, art/performance] she draws on a multitude of experience in developing her works and programs. Her artworks have been exhibited in Paris at La Cité des Arts Internationale, Galerie Evi Gougenheim/Artplace, Gallery Grace Teshima, and the Gallery Arnaud Lefebvre. 'Gefuehlspakete 2016', a gift-set of 'feelings' in various containers is currently on display at UP ART Gallery in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany.

Herzer is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: 'i cheated on Chanel N°5' [Dancing Girl Press, 2013], and 'i wanted to be a pirate' [h_ngm-n eBooks, 2009]. Her writing appears in numerous literary journals, art reviews and online publications such as Fence, The Offending Adam, The Volta, Aesthetica Magazine, Drunken Boat, Blackbox Manifold, and The New York Quarterly. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Bennington College.

Working across mediums [drawing, video, language-objects, installation, workshop], her practice employs accumulation and gestures of 'over-layering', 'covering up', 'erasing', 'interrupting' and 'complicating' in order to address/process questions of invisibility and meaning -- in other words, love:

How to make visible loss and feeling? What is the role of containers in protecting/exposing/shaping meaning? Do feelings expire? How to cultivate 'flow' in one's practice?

Herzer 's 'Language Objects', for example, is a series of toasted breads covered in paint, embroidered, or written on with a marker, which invite visitors to contemplate what is meant to nourish us.

In 2012, she was awarded a visual arts fellowship from Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral for La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. She served as Guest Lecturer at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad (India, 2011-2013) and was Scholar-in-Residence at Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts, Pune (India, 2013), where she taught Creative Writing to undergraduates. Her essay 'Against Knowing' provides background on her artistic calling. Recently, Herzer has been leading Creative Writing Workshops in Germany in variety of settings including academic institutions, medical centres, and art spaces.

She is currently making 'Written Drawings' . In her own words: I wanted to see words contending for meaning. I wanted to find out if i could use my handwriting [=the body] to transform language into feeling, or rather, I wanted to keep writing to see what would happen if I gave up resisting moving forward.

The TRELEX Poet-in-Residence position marks a period of transition for Herzer. She will be going from intense art-making into a period of generating new writing, as well as transcribing and arranging the works, processes & concerns made/observed & collected in Germany over past two years. Her research-related workshops will continue at the Goethe Institute in Paris where she will be leading a writing lab. She also has plans to host writing sessions at Berkeley Books and looks forward to connecting with Paris-based poets, philosophers and artists.

For more information about her work please visit her website and/or contact her directly.